Andres Green
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Can I simply read just this book? Or do I have to read all the other ones as well.
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Tyson Fritz
This would be a great book to read as a first Terry Pratchett book because it is one of his best. You don't have to read any of the other ones but you'll want to.
Scott Langston
You can simply read this book stand alone. Some books in the series make more sense to read in a particular order, but any of them wok alone. Pratchett himself declared that they should NOT be read in the order he wrote them!
Janell
I think this would be a fantastic place to start - it's one of the best, and it's first in one of the subseries... the books about the Night Watch. I personally would recommend reading each subseries (the Witches, Death, the Night Watch, etc.) in order, but the subseries and the standalones (Pyramids, Small Gods, etc.) can be read in any order.
Ksenia Laney
You don't have to read the other ones. It's set in the same world, and there are some recurring characters, but you can pick up pretty much any book in the series as its own story without being lost.
Allan
In search of the answer to this same question, and after reading a few of the books "out of order", I finally found a reading guide: http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-o....
Which is why this one was my next choice. It's the first a bunch books that deal with Vimes and the Watch. Though, having read both Night Watch and Thud!, which take place later than Guards! Guards!, I don't feel like I've missed anything that detracted from my enjoyment of the "later" books.
Which is why this one was my next choice. It's the first a bunch books that deal with Vimes and the Watch. Though, having read both Night Watch and Thud!, which take place later than Guards! Guards!, I don't feel like I've missed anything that detracted from my enjoyment of the "later" books.
Clayschuldt
I've only read two Terry Pratchett novels and I read them out of order. This was the superior of the two books and I kind of wish I had started here. Way better method of introducing a reader to this strange world.
Ami
I'm with Tyson. It's better to start with The color of magic, and then - whatever order.
Edward Snell
This was actually the first of the Disk world books I ever read and now I cannot get enough to be honest. I only own 14 of them now (and two DVD's so far too) and always on the look out for more. Yes it can be read alone but in my case it became habit forming.
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